so I *think* that the setting you point to is to just by default have that checkbox unchecked in the modal, I was looking for a way to not even have the modal pop up and require me to take action before Compare does it's thing

btw, I tried to get into the settings by right-clicking as that KB article shows, but all I get is "Copy" in the context menu... I am running an older version (3.0.13.4214) because of 3.1's "timeout" issues

David Atkinson wrote:We'd obviously want to encourage users to included dependencies to reduce the risk of ending up with an inconsistent database. Is there any reason why you never want to commit the dependencies

We've got a mish-mash of SQL Server versions across our 3 environments, I keep things simple by using SQL Source Control *just* for the PROCs I write... it's worked great for 3+ years now